Stage Directions Beyond Theater: Eugène Ionesco’s exercise in theatricality

Stage directions are a special type of genre in theater, ranging from indications for the dramatic text to the emergence of the author’s voice. In Eugène Ionesco’s case, stage directions go beyond his plays and find another function in his critical writings and in his correspondence with directors....

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Main Author: Viviane Araújo Alves da Costa Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2016-05-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
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Online Access:http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/60627
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description Stage directions are a special type of genre in theater, ranging from indications for the dramatic text to the emergence of the author’s voice. In Eugène Ionesco’s case, stage directions go beyond his plays and find another function in his critical writings and in his correspondence with directors. In this paper, we analyze how stage directions function in the texts published in Notes et contre-notes and in the manuscripts housed in Ionesco’s Archives, from the perspective of a theoretical debate that involves Bernard Dort, Roland Barthes and Luiz Fernando Ramos, among other researchers interested in theatricality.
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spelling doaj.art-caeb4fe295854ba7b8360b2ec5472c902022-12-22T01:44:36ZengUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulRevista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença2237-26602237-26602016-05-0126331351Stage Directions Beyond Theater: Eugène Ionesco’s exercise in theatricalityViviane Araújo Alves da Costa Pereira 0Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR, Curitiba/PR, Brazil Stage directions are a special type of genre in theater, ranging from indications for the dramatic text to the emergence of the author’s voice. In Eugène Ionesco’s case, stage directions go beyond his plays and find another function in his critical writings and in his correspondence with directors. In this paper, we analyze how stage directions function in the texts published in Notes et contre-notes and in the manuscripts housed in Ionesco’s Archives, from the perspective of a theoretical debate that involves Bernard Dort, Roland Barthes and Luiz Fernando Ramos, among other researchers interested in theatricality.http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/60627TheatricalityStage DirectionsEugène IonescoNotes and Counter notesManuscripts
spellingShingle Viviane Araújo Alves da Costa Pereira
Stage Directions Beyond Theater: Eugène Ionesco’s exercise in theatricality
Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
Theatricality
Stage Directions
Eugène Ionesco
Notes and Counter notes
Manuscripts
title Stage Directions Beyond Theater: Eugène Ionesco’s exercise in theatricality
title_full Stage Directions Beyond Theater: Eugène Ionesco’s exercise in theatricality
title_fullStr Stage Directions Beyond Theater: Eugène Ionesco’s exercise in theatricality
title_full_unstemmed Stage Directions Beyond Theater: Eugène Ionesco’s exercise in theatricality
title_short Stage Directions Beyond Theater: Eugène Ionesco’s exercise in theatricality
title_sort stage directions beyond theater eugene ionesco s exercise in theatricality
topic Theatricality
Stage Directions
Eugène Ionesco
Notes and Counter notes
Manuscripts
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